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Re: Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts

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Post by WaxProlix »

j45 wrote: post #20
WaxProlix wrote: post #5

I decided to run proxmox on my homelab rather than having a k8s setup, and I've come to sort of regret it. LXCs are awesome, but being bound to just them or qemu VMs doesn't fit all of my needs. With Kubernetes I could just add support for lightweight VMs (Firecracker hypervisor, or unikernels or something) with a project like Kata. Proxmox is just not extensible. It's also just not amenable to automation or reproduc…

Different technologies are for different approaches and applications. It's relatively trivial to use the pve command line utility to create or modify vms in proxmox. Still, the originating reason of this post is due to a large number of useful scripts to help make things more manageable and maintainable, and the founder of it having to step away, and there being gratitude for their help to make things much more manag…

I hadn't intended to take away from that. And I've used these scripts myself for spinning up resources - they're definitely a help.

Re: Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts

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Post by lotophage »

daqnz wrote: post #9

Along with the submitter, I am also on the team of maintainers who volunteered to help with maintenance of this project after tteck's sad news that they were entering hospice (1). The team members are all motivated individuals, who are enthusiastic on carrying on tteck's legacy. We are moving forward in a transparent manner and I am more than happy to answer any questions. (1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=420…

Oh wow, this is truely sad news.

I only recently went down the homelab/selfhosted path and the majority of my containers were setup using tteck's scripts.

Re: Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts

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Post by xrd »

Am I right that proxmox takes over your entire machine?

I have been using a combination of docker and lxc/lxd to manage my VMs. But, cockpit (on ubuntu) does not give me a perfect experience for managing running VMS, etc.

I wish there was a good solution for all of this. But, it feels like you need to cobble together a bunch of kibana tools to get true monitoring.

Re: Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts

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Post by alsetmusic »

xrd wrote: post #23

Am I right that proxmox takes over your entire machine? I have been using a combination of docker and lxc/lxd to manage my VMs. But, cockpit (on ubuntu) does not give me a perfect experience for managing running VMS, etc. I wish there was a good solution for all of this. But, it feels like you need to cobble together a bunch of kibana tools to get true monitoring.

Yes, installing Proxmox is akin to installing ESXi.

Re: Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts

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Post by gchamonlive »

xrd wrote: post #23

Am I right that proxmox takes over your entire machine? I have been using a combination of docker and lxc/lxd to manage my VMs. But, cockpit (on ubuntu) does not give me a perfect experience for managing running VMS, etc. I wish there was a good solution for all of this. But, it feels like you need to cobble together a bunch of kibana tools to get true monitoring.

I wanted to delegate management of my raid array to higher level tools since it died on me seemingly for nothing (I was able to recover all the drives but none of the files).

I tried TrueNAS but it's very rigid. Proxmox seems to give you more control over what's installed on the server but it's also quite locked down. Don't remember exactly what was it that pushed me off Proxmox. I think it was that I needed to manage some VMs over LXD API and others over proxmox and I couldn't mix and match, I had to choose one without extra hacks.

Re: Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts

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Post by daqnz »

j45 wrote: post #20
WaxProlix wrote: post #5

I decided to run proxmox on my homelab rather than having a k8s setup, and I've come to sort of regret it. LXCs are awesome, but being bound to just them or qemu VMs doesn't fit all of my needs. With Kubernetes I could just add support for lightweight VMs (Firecracker hypervisor, or unikernels or something) with a project like Kata. Proxmox is just not extensible. It's also just not amenable to automation or reproduc…

Different technologies are for different approaches and applications. It's relatively trivial to use the pve command line utility to create or modify vms in proxmox. Still, the originating reason of this post is due to a large number of useful scripts to help make things more manageable and maintainable, and the founder of it having to step away, and there being gratitude for their help to make things much more manag…

> Still, the originating reason of this post is due to a large number of useful scripts to help make things more manageable and maintainable

Also makes it very quick to try out an application, arguably less time than even docker.

Re: Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts

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Post by daqnz »

lotophage wrote: post #22
daqnz wrote: post #9

Along with the submitter, I am also on the team of maintainers who volunteered to help with maintenance of this project after tteck's sad news that they were entering hospice (1). The team members are all motivated individuals, who are enthusiastic on carrying on tteck's legacy. We are moving forward in a transparent manner and I am more than happy to answer any questions. (1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=420…

Oh wow, this is truely sad news. I only recently went down the homelab/selfhosted path and the majority of my containers were setup using tteck's scripts.

> Oh wow, this is truely sad news.

Incredibly sad. It’s a real testament to tteck that he took the time to transition the project, and make his wishes known how he wanted us to proceed. Tteck is a legend.

Re: Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts

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Post by TheSmiddy »

sgc wrote: post #17

I have been looking into setting up my first Proxmox box, here is my take as a newcomer. I wanted to do what I think is a very basic and very common setup: Modem > proxmox box > OPNsense VM > physical wifi router via onboard 10Gb NIC + internal network VMs like OMV etc. The goal is to add a full network filter via OPNsense, and allow access to a media sever and backup etc from the internal network. I see no OPNsense,…

> I don't see any glue scripts to get VMs talking to each other

I'm confused by what you mean here? Don't they just use the network like any other computer?

I haven't had to do any special configuration to get my VMs to talk to each other.

Re: Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts

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Post by globular-toast »

WaxProlix wrote: post #5

I decided to run proxmox on my homelab rather than having a k8s setup, and I've come to sort of regret it. LXCs are awesome, but being bound to just them or qemu VMs doesn't fit all of my needs. With Kubernetes I could just add support for lightweight VMs (Firecracker hypervisor, or unikernels or something) with a project like Kata. Proxmox is just not extensible. It's also just not amenable to automation or reproduc…

But you can just chuck Kubernetes nodes on Proxmox? I have my nodes running on XCP-ng. The beauty of running a hypervisor is maximum flexibility. I can try out different distros etc, either for k8s nodes or otherwise. I run my router on there (opnsense). I can play with stuff like nix and guix and could even install Windows if for some reason I wanted to.
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